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Prince of Darkness and Other Stories
by Powers, J. F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Southampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company, Inc. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Later Printing (1947 on copyright, 1951 on title page). Not price-clipped ($2.75 price intact). Published by Doubleday, 1947. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in black. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Boards have shelf wear with rubbing along edges and hinges. Staining along top edge of boards and offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner name on flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear. Some nicks and tears along edges. Tear and crease on top front left corner. Small spot on front cover and spotting to flaps. Book placed in custom acetate protector. A very good copy of this collection of short stories. 277 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96796
- Title
- Prince of Darkness and Other Stories
- Author
- Powers, J. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
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Terms of Sale
Southampton Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Southampton Books
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Southampton, New York
About Southampton Books
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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